Mobile Mardi Gras Is A Royal Tradition For This Family

By Kelli M. Dugan

A fully embellished, early 19th-century Regency-inspired period costume complete with a 15-foot, fur-lined train might seem an odd wardrobe choice for a typical high school senior, but welcome to Mardi Gras in Mobile.

Joseph Kimble Carr Little, 17, donned the elaborate custom robes – designed and created by Julia Greer Fobes – for his Feb. 19 coronation as the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association’s (MAMGA) 2017 junior king and will wear them again when the MAMGA Mammoth Parade rolls majestically through the Azalea City at 2 p.m. on Fat Tuesday.

And for the Little family, king Joseph’s reign is as much about family and community as it is the pageantry and ceremony accompanying the centuries-old Carnival tradition.In fact, Joseph Little is second-generation MAMGA royalty, with nearly three dozen family members having participated in the court in some fashion since 1946, when his grandmother Mary Wilson served as first lady-in-waiting, followed one year later by grandfather Wiley N. Butler, who was a MAMGA royal court knight.

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